# Open WebUI v0.8.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Open WebUI (https://openwebui.com)
- **Version:** v0.8.1
- **Released:** Feb 14, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/open-webui/updates/v0.8.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Open WebUI v0.8.1. Source highlight: [0.8.1] - 2026-02-14

## New Features
- 🚀 **Channel user active status.** Checking user active status in channels is now faster thanks to optimized database queries. Commit
- 🔗 **Responses API endpoint with model routing.** The OpenAI API proxy now supports a /responses endpoint that routes requests to the correct backend based on the model field in the request, instead of always using the first configured endpoint. This enables support for backends like vLLM that provide /skills and /v1/responses endpoints. Commit, Commit
- ⚡ **Model and prompt list optimization.** Improved performance when loading models and prompts by pre-fetching user group IDs once instead of making multiple database queries. Commit
- 🗄️ **Batch access control queries.** Improved performance when loading models, prompts, and knowledge bases by replacing multiple individual access checks with single batch queries, significantly reducing database load for large deployments. Commit
- 💨 **Faster user list loading.** User lists now load significantly faster by deferring profile image loading; images are fetched separately in parallel by the browser, improving caching and reducing database load. Commit
- 🔍 **Web search result count.** The built-in search_web tool now respects the admin-configured "Search Result Count" setting instead of always returning 5 results when using Native Function Calling mode. #21373, #21371

## Bug Fixes
- 🛡️ **Public sharing security fix.** Fixed a security issue where users with write access could see the Public sharing option regardless of their actual public sharing permission, and direct API calls could bypass frontend sharing restrictions. #21358, #21356
- 🔒 **Direct model access control fix.** Model access control changes now persist correctly for direct Ollama and OpenAI models that don't have database entries, and error messages display properly instead of showing "[object Object]". Commit, #21377
- 💭 **Reasoning trace rendering performance.** Reasoning traces from models now render properly without being split into many fragments, preventing browser slowdowns during streaming responses. #21348, Commit
- 🖥️ **ARM device compatibility fix.** Fixed an issue where upgrading to 0.8.0 would fail to start on ARM devices (like Raspberry Pi 4) due to torch 2.10.0 causing SIGILL errors; now pinned to torch<=2.9.1. #21385, #21349
- 🗄️ **Skills PostgreSQL compatibility fix.** Fixed a PostgreSQL compatibility issue where creating or listing skills would fail with a TypeError, while SQLite worked correctly. #21372, Commit, #21365
- 🗄️ **PostgreSQL analytics query fix.** Fixed an issue where retrieving chat IDs by model ID would fail on PostgreSQL due to incompatible DISTINCT ordering, while SQLite worked correctly. #21347, Commit